The prevalence of stroke occurrence in the United States continues to raise concerns. In addition, ignoring stroke signs and symptoms is an area of growing concern. According to a scientific statement ...

LIMA — Mercy Health is now offering online stroke risk assessments for people who want to understand their risk and lifestyle changes they can make to lower their chances of suffering a stroke. “More ...

Mercy Health – Springfield has launched an online stroke risk assessment tool for Stroke Awareness Month, allowing people to better understand their risk of stroke. The online tool is available to ...

When a person has suffered a stroke, the severity of that stroke has to be determined as fast as possible. An experimental new brain-wave-reading cap was created with that fact in mind, as it allows ...

If someone has suffered a stroke, the sooner they get the appropriate medical attention, the better. A new smartphone tool may help ensure that happens, by allowing first responders to determine if a ...

A new scientific statement discusses rapid evaluation for transient ischemic attack (TIA) due to high risk of future stroke. Stroke symptoms that disappear in under an hour, known as a transient ...

It’s associated with a lower risk of hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, cognitive decline, ...

Results of a large cohort study show adherence to a Mediterranean diet is linked to a lower risk for all stroke types in ...

Whereas symptoms of depression are known to intensify in patients who have recently experienced an incident stroke, it might also be true in such cases that the depression actually starts to worsen in ...